| Show IN TUB rUl buy CITY A converted Jew Jow J 3 JI for a 1 long time line hRS been b cn engaged In lu missionary work In Palestine In the tho In of ot his hii adopted faith Is visiting this country In nn an Interview with n a representative of or the Worcester Even Evening I EvenIng on ing In he lie cave gave some Interesting data tIata concerning Jerusalem and Its present population He Be said sold In part port Jerusalem as ns In III ancient times Is surrounded by a n wall wail which U is two and aud a n half halt miles In circumference has 31 towers and oven gates gat s one of ot which h hIs Is closed each bearing a significant nt name nn 1111 me e The wall trail Is la front from 30 to 40 feet teel high The population is between and and Is divided as ns follows Greek Orthodox 1000 Itoman Homan Catholic Armenian GOO COO COO Coptic Creek Catholic Aba Abys Abyssinian sinian CO 60 M to number about and they have hava In tn Increased creased of ot late lale The Tho Jews outnumber them nil The Iho Mohammedan under whom Jerusalem Is governed take no house to house census and the tho above Is la only a n conservative con estimate The has tin Riven strict trIEt orders not to al iii low iI any Jews s to to return to Palestine lale In spite spile of which hundreds do somehow squeeze their way Into the tho Holy Hol City Certain It I t Is that no so soon as ns these re restrictions will vIiI bo be removed thousands ot lit u Jews who are still waiting will vIii come and enrich Palestine by their wealth wenith education and amid Industry The city Is still a it 1 monument to the ancient civilization that once otice flourished 1 In that part of ot the world 1 On this point Mr said Thousands Thousand upon thousands of ot de tIc devout vout out pilgrims annually vIsit this thin Holy City and laud land and kiss Its very cry stones Among these pilgrims may mRY be b enumerated enumerated princes kings kinga and emperors who come with the tingle single desiro of seeing for tor themselves those most sacred spots Ipota associated with the life lire ot of that Savior of ot men mono Title This In Itself Is a n remarkable proof and fulfillment of or the prophecy The manners anti and customs are carried on today In Jerusalem that were In vogue ogue In our ur Saviors time and back to Abraham Isaac and Jacob JacobOne JacobOne One Ono most ancient custom Is described rn a this paragraph There arc no newspapers In Jerusa Jerusalem lem lent When a man loses a n donkey he cannot advertise his loss In the Jeru Jerusalem Jerusalem salem Spy Sp and go KO to sleep In comfort with tho expectation that t nt It I will be e speedily returned to him The Tue lie only Ont thing for him to do Is to engage eugo a crIer who shall shah go 10 about the streets crying Inhabitants of Jerusalem faithful of ot the earth God Cod Is great groat and Mohammed Is II Ills His prophet Abdul has hns lost a brown and white donkey donko with a Il short hort anti mangy man tall tail tailLet Let whoever r finds him bring him to Abdul and receive rP ele n a reward The professional criers whose who e busi business bu l lne ness flees ne a It Is to wholesale news on the tho streets develop extraordinary lung long powers flowers They rattle off oft their formulas faster than a 1 clerk lerk of ot courts repents repeats rOII ts the tho witness oath but thin tha natives un on understand them perfectly In this conservative preservation ot of ancient ancl II habits anti and a customs the tha th key ke keIs Is found toun 1 to the rHent present status of ot Pales Palestine Palestine Palestine tine and all territory under exclusive exclusively ly h Turkish rule That Is the tho run eurs of ot one otiO of ot the most favored regions of the he earth Hut the he conditions are changing Civilization Is U penetrating slowly but irresistibly It will yet et come com cometo to pus pose that bitt the law 11 will wilt go SO forth o t ot or ZIon CIon and the word of ot the Lord LoN from rom Jerusalem |
